Quotes and Sayings About Tools

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
-- Aaron Swartz

#Class #Tools #Lasts

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
-- Adam Savage

#Believe #Hammers #Tools

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
-- Adam Savage

#Tools #Problem #Only Time Will Tell

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
-- Adam Savage

#Order #Names #Tools

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Artist #Needs #Tools

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Life #Tools

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
-- Agnes Varda

#Artist #Hands #Tools

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.
-- Ahmadu Bello

#Grandfather #Tools #Minorities

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
-- Al Gore

#Tools #Looks #Use

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
-- Alan Tudyk

#Play #Tools #Actors

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
-- Albert Bandura

#Self #Textbooks #Tools

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
-- Albert Brooks

#Tools

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
-- Albert Hofmann

#Tools #Lsd #Turns

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
-- Albert Hofmann

#Thinking #Tools #Substance

Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.
-- Albie Sachs

#Men #Forever #Tools

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski

#Technology #Important #Tools

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
-- Alex Haley

#Powerful #Tools #Littles

And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Reality #Survival #Tools

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
-- Alexander Pope

#Kings #Enemy #Tools

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
-- Ali Partovi

#Artist #Roles #Tools

Writing and drawing are very therapeutic, but they are also an excellent manifestation tool. I teach my clients to draw what they want, or to write a story about it to bring the manifestation forward into the present.
-- Alice McCall

#Writing #Drawing #Tools

Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
-- Allan Bloom

#Practice #Political #Tools

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
-- Alva Myrdal

#War #Tools #Rivals

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Sarcastic #Tools #Dupes

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
-- Amy Tan

#Tools #Use #Language

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
-- Andre Kertesz

#Giving #Cameras #Tools

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.
-- Andrew Weil

#Mind #Tools #Achieve

Finding the tool is often half the battle.
-- Andy Rooney

#Battle #Tools #Half

Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.
-- Andy Rubin

#Phones #Tools #Sides

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
-- Anne McCaffrey

#Writing #Tools #Emotion